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<blockquote data-quote="LBnM" data-source="post: 3020680" data-attributes="member: 817"><p>Don't usually get in on these conversations because caliber likes and dislikes are so subjective. But, I have killed many Bull Elk with everything from the .257 Roberts to 375 H&H Mag. I am not a magnum fanboy but must admit a .338 or .375 works well in the mountains. I lived there for several years before returning to Oklahoma in the early eighties. A main consideration should be on how you prefer to hunt. My longest elk shot in all those years was 92 paces and deer was 175 running I preferred to get up close and personal in the black timber with the Elk. Never saw much that excited me about sitting in a spot and pot shooting from a distance. In those years the most popular and efficient rifle in the hands of locals was a .308 and the most lost game came from those shooting .243's. The Browning BLR was a very popular rifle with the locals. It became my go to rifle for everything but not in .308. My favorite cartridge was it's little big brother, the .358 Winchester. I owned that caliber in levers and bolts and never had less than two of them in my gun safe till last year. I no longer hunt deer or elk and a friend from Oregon talked me out of my then current BLR take-down in .358 so he could carry it in a checked suitcase to Alaska for Moose. He got a fine one with it too. Not a lot of factory ammo available but it is a handloaders dream. I have a stash of Hornady factory in the safe. That caliber kills everything I have shot at very efficiently. Killed the only hog I ever shot like the hammer of Thor. I'll be 75 yrs old in a couple of weeks and will have my backup .358 for sale along with the few guns I have left. My son died before me so I have nobody to pass them on to. My grandkids aren't interested in hunting or guns and i actually think that's good. It will save them lots of $$ over their lifetime. I'll not advertise in this thread but all I'm gonna keep are a couple of my SIGs for carry and my Beretta SxS for the few bird trips Bea and I will make. Watch the ads later for my <em>unfired</em> back up. It will make someone a super Oklahoma thumper if they like a bolt rifle. BTW, Jack O'Conner heavily influenced my long time hunting partner back then and he took several with his .270 - just gotta use the right bullets for whatever cartridge you choose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LBnM, post: 3020680, member: 817"] Don't usually get in on these conversations because caliber likes and dislikes are so subjective. But, I have killed many Bull Elk with everything from the .257 Roberts to 375 H&H Mag. I am not a magnum fanboy but must admit a .338 or .375 works well in the mountains. I lived there for several years before returning to Oklahoma in the early eighties. A main consideration should be on how you prefer to hunt. My longest elk shot in all those years was 92 paces and deer was 175 running I preferred to get up close and personal in the black timber with the Elk. Never saw much that excited me about sitting in a spot and pot shooting from a distance. In those years the most popular and efficient rifle in the hands of locals was a .308 and the most lost game came from those shooting .243's. The Browning BLR was a very popular rifle with the locals. It became my go to rifle for everything but not in .308. My favorite cartridge was it's little big brother, the .358 Winchester. I owned that caliber in levers and bolts and never had less than two of them in my gun safe till last year. I no longer hunt deer or elk and a friend from Oregon talked me out of my then current BLR take-down in .358 so he could carry it in a checked suitcase to Alaska for Moose. He got a fine one with it too. Not a lot of factory ammo available but it is a handloaders dream. I have a stash of Hornady factory in the safe. That caliber kills everything I have shot at very efficiently. Killed the only hog I ever shot like the hammer of Thor. I'll be 75 yrs old in a couple of weeks and will have my backup .358 for sale along with the few guns I have left. My son died before me so I have nobody to pass them on to. My grandkids aren't interested in hunting or guns and i actually think that's good. It will save them lots of $$ over their lifetime. I'll not advertise in this thread but all I'm gonna keep are a couple of my SIGs for carry and my Beretta SxS for the few bird trips Bea and I will make. Watch the ads later for my [I]unfired[/I] back up. It will make someone a super Oklahoma thumper if they like a bolt rifle. BTW, Jack O'Conner heavily influenced my long time hunting partner back then and he took several with his .270 - just gotta use the right bullets for whatever cartridge you choose. [/QUOTE]
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